Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 198
In a remote place like Aomori, the popularity is later than other places.

It is so popular that things that are not popular enough are hard to bring any enthusiasm here. In this way, friends with common interests become more and more rare.

It is also because of this that the two teenagers got closer and closer, exchanging records they had on hand, exchanging views on music, and finally, because of their love for hard rock and heavy metal, they formed a band.

The band's name was originally called "Go to Die to Die", as the name suggests, from the stalk of "Couples to Die to Death".Two teenagers who love heavy metal and focus on the music world obviously have no relationship with women.

Even if BANDMAN is popular, their kind of band that seems funny and weird to others will obviously not be welcomed by school girls.

Falling in love is absolutely impossible, you can only appreciate each other between gay friends, and by the way, hold high the banner of couples dying, and coldly despise couples who show affection.

On the eve of high school graduation, I made an appointment with Shinjima Shima and Kenichi Suzuki to take the university entrance examination in Tokyo together.If we can all go to Tokyo, then we will continue the band business.

Just like Shinichi Iwahashi who chose to go to Beijing when he could not find his goal, and Takao Tajima who resolutely went to Beijing to achieve his goal, Tokyo has such charm and significance in the eyes of young people outside of Tokyo.

Shinji Wadajima was admitted to the Buddhist Faculty of Komazawa University, a choice that seems a bit baffling to outsiders.Kenichi Suzuki was admitted to the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​at Sophia University, where he studied Rakshasa.Sophia University is a top-notch school. Kenichi Suzuki entered Sophia University, and he has already stepped into a large enterprise with one foot.

A pair of good friends reunited in Tokyo, fulfilled the promise of the past, and formed a band again, playing guitar with Shima Shinji and Suzuki Kenichi playing bass. Although the two are perfectly matched, they still feel that having a drummer will add a lot of color.

However, this drummer should not only add color to the band, but also not affect the music world they built together. In other words, what they are looking for is a real "green leaf".

This kind of just right is just the most difficult. It doesn't matter if the quality is too much or too little. After several interviews, I finally selected a drummer named Shangguan Defang.

However, as a member, the drummer is more like a support musician.

During the search for a drummer, Shinji Wadajima and Kenichi Suzuki heard that there was an underground band called X, which was completely opposite to their two bands. The drummer led the whole band, and found it very interesting.

In addition, I also saw the tolerance and richness of Tokyo's underground music circle.

After Tokuyoshi Uedate joined, the iron triangle of the band was formed, with Suzuki Kenichi himself acting as the manager. They began to look for opportunities to perform at the LIVEHOUSE in Tokyo. However, when performing the performance, they realized that there was already a band in Tokyo A band called Die Die Die, so they had to rethink a name.

Shinji Wadashima and Kenichi Suzuki thought about it for several days, came up with a few names, rejected a few more names, and finally decided to use Edogawa Ranpo's novel "The Chair in the World" that Shinji Kazushima likes as the band name.

……

Kazushima Shinji didn't open the letter, but carried him with him until the end of the afternoon class, when he went to meet Suzuki Kenichi, the two opened the letter.

The content in it is that their band has become a candidate for the "Band Paradise" TV competition, and then they will go to TV Asahi for a re-examination. If they can stand out from the crowd, then they can get the opportunity to be on TV.

"How about it?"

"Well, it's expected." Suzuki Kenichi combed his long hair with his fingers.He had straight, shoulder-length black hair that looked flowing.

"But, it's just a bit of a surprise?" Hejima Shinji listened to what he said, which was due to the tacit understanding between the two for many years.

Ken Suzuki nodded, "Yes. From this point of view, this program seems to be very inclusive, and even we can accommodate it. Probably we will really meet opponents with rich and diverse styles."

"Who knows." Shinji Wajima smiled slightly, "Maybe they used us as a joke."

He said such words, but looking at his expression, there was no worry or displeasure at all, but it made people feel a little cynical and free and easy.

"Maybe." Suzuki Kenichi didn't care too much, "However, what if we are used as a joke for fun?"

Standing on the stage, turning one's inner world into lyrics, and integrating one's emotions into the performance, this is a matter of self-sacrifice, even if it is to ensure the so-called decentness, it cannot be avoided. a little.

However, it doesn’t hurt to please the audience.That's not something that lowers one's dignity.

If the audience looks at us and smiles, we smile at the audience.

If the audience is addicted to our performance, we are also addicted to the cheers from the audience.

We delight our audience, and we take pleasure from our audience.

With this kind of mentality, when they first formed the band, they used the name "Go to Die to Die" in a self-deprecating manner, and now they are not afraid. When they knew that they had this opportunity, they sent their own Performance video.

"That's right, that's right, I have something to tell you." Kenichi Suzuki finished reading the letter, folded it and stuffed it back into the envelope, "I'm about to consider the stage of taking office soon, do you have any plans?"

"No." Shinji Wadajima replied.

"I don't know what to do in my heart." Suzuki Kenichi said, "If I want to get a job, among other things, I have to cut off this long hair first...' When I decided to get a job and cut off my long hair, I also argued to you that we had no longer young'."

Hejima Shinji likes Matsutoya Yumi's song, and Suzuki Kenichi deliberately sang a song called "いちご白书" をもう一切" written for a band called BanBan when Matsutoya Yumi was still Arai Yumi (see again Once "Strawberry White Paper") song.

This song describes the young students in the university in Japan in the special era of the 70s and [-]s. After their ideals were shattered, they entered the society after graduation, and everything returned to reality.

バンバン was originally a little-known band, because they got this song from Arai Yumi, and it became a big hit, but the next single was immediately returned to its original shape, as if everything returned to reality after graduation.

Not only Miyuki Nakajima, whose lyrics are full of literature, wrote songs of that era, but Yumi Matsutoya, who was exclusive to the middle class, also contributed such a famous song.

However, Kenichi Suzuki sang this line of lyrics, not just for fun.

"It's a pity to just cut off the long hair like this, Kazushima. There's nothing wrong with treating us as unrealistic idealists."

"So, I have a proposal."

"Oh?"

"If we can qualify for the TV competition, we will give up our job. Regardless of whether we can make our debut this time, how about working as a professional musician in the future?" Kenichi Suzuki said.

(End of this chapter)